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In my mail from the list today:-
written by Rockne Johnson

Hi Carol,

The archives of this list are replete with discussion of the surname
notion. Your achievements in Danish genealogy will be enhanced if you,
temporarily, wipe the word from your vocabulary. In 1666 rural Denmark,
Rasmus had no surname. He had a name: Rasmus. He had a patronym derived
from his father's name: Christen. For the convenience of the community,
which may have contained several Rasmus Christensens, another name may have
been added to distinguish among them. This added name was descriptive in
some way and its entry into a record was at the discretion of the
writer. The added name could change (or be omitted) at the discretion of
the writer. It had no legal (or religious) significance. It may or may
not have been used for more than one member of a family.

Elsewhere in genealogy, where surname recognition is an important tool,
surnames are often written with all capitals. That practice has no
efficacy in the genealogy of us descendants of Danish peasants.

Skov = woods and mand=man. Shoe = sko.

Rock